.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 283 130
Rank change year-on-year -40 -153 +33
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 416 423 1,866
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.52% 1.12% 2.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.34% 5.64% 11.03%
Number of salaries quoted 383 365 1,772
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,875 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.70%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,785 7,502 16,924
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.75% 19.78% 20.31%
Number of salaries quoted 5,885 5,789 14,105
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,700 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,500 £51,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.76% +9.17% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 30 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -66 114 £55,000 - 39
London -56 82 £82,500 +3.13% 54
North West -34 65 £55,000 -8.33% 21
South East -33 64 £60,000 +14.29% 48
Midlands -20 63 £65,000 +23.81% 18
East Midlands -15 47 £65,000 +23.81% 9
South West -29 46 £53,750 -20.37% 15
East of England -7 40 £90,000 +71.43% 24
North East -19 28 £65,000 +44.44% 8
Yorkshire -77 21 £55,000 -8.33% 10
West Midlands -40 16 £65,000 +10.17% 9
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (5.05%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.68%) IIS
3 2 (0.48%) CMS
4 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Magento
2 1 (0.24%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 249 (59.86%) Azure
2 81 (19.47%) AWS
3 65 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (11.06%) SaaS
5 45 (10.82%) Serverless
6 43 (10.34%) Azure Logic Apps
7 42 (10.10%) Power Platform
8 31 (7.45%) GitHub
9 23 (5.53%) Azure Data Factory
9 23 (5.53%) Power Automate
9 23 (5.53%) PowerApps
10 21 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
11 20 (4.81%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (4.57%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (4.57%) Azure Functions
12 19 (4.57%) Azure Service Bus
12 19 (4.57%) OneDrive
13 18 (4.33%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (3.13%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.72%) Internet
2 2 (0.48%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.24%) AMQP
3 1 (0.24%) HTTP
3 1 (0.24%) Modbus
3 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (37.26%) SQL Server
2 61 (14.66%) Azure SQL Database
3 37 (8.89%) Power BI
4 29 (6.97%) NoSQL
5 27 (6.49%) MongoDB
6 18 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (2.88%) MySQL
8 11 (2.64%) DynamoDB
9 10 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.68%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.44%) Redis
12 2 (0.48%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.24%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.24%) NonStop SQL
13 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 45 (10.82%) Git
2 8 (1.92%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.44%) JIRA
3 6 (1.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (0.96%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.72%) NUnit
5 3 (0.72%) Vite
6 2 (0.48%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.48%) MSTest
6 2 (0.48%) webpack
7 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.24%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.24%) Selenium
7 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 64 (15.38%) Finance
2 48 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 15 (3.61%) Games
4 13 (3.13%) Banking
5 11 (2.64%) Law
6 9 (2.16%) Front Office
6 9 (2.16%) Retail
7 8 (1.92%) Automotive
7 8 (1.92%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.44%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.20%) Legal
10 4 (0.96%) Advertising
10 4 (0.96%) Marketing
11 3 (0.72%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.48%) Local Government
12 2 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.48%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 297 (71.39%) Developer
2 134 (32.21%) .NET Developer
3 123 (29.57%) Senior
4 106 (25.48%) Software Developer
5 77 (18.51%) Senior Developer
6 73 (17.55%) C# Developer
7 56 (13.46%) Lead
8 49 (11.78%) C# .NET Developer
8 49 (11.78%) Full-Stack Developer
9 47 (11.30%) Software Engineer
10 31 (7.45%) Lead Developer
11 28 (6.73%) Senior Software Engineer
12 27 (6.49%) Senior Software Developer
13 26 (6.25%) .NET Software Developer
14 25 (6.01%) .NET Software Engineer
15 23 (5.53%) Applications Developer
16 21 (5.05%) Azure Developer
16 21 (5.05%) Azure Engineer
16 21 (5.05%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
17 20 (4.81%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 416 (100.00%) .NET
2 131 (31.49%) ASP.NET
3 88 (21.15%) .NET Framework
4 85 (20.43%) React
5 62 (14.90%) HTML
6 59 (14.18%) CSS
7 58 (13.94%) Blazor
7 58 (13.94%) RESTful
8 54 (12.98%) Entity Framework
9 50 (12.02%) ASP.NET Core
10 42 (10.10%) AngularJS
10 42 (10.10%) Vue
11 31 (7.45%) REST
12 27 (6.49%) Node.js
13 26 (6.25%) JSON
14 25 (6.01%) ASP.NET MVC
15 23 (5.53%) ASP.NET Web API
16 21 (5.05%) Microsoft Graph
17 19 (4.57%) HTML5 Canvas
17 19 (4.57%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.41%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.09%) Greenfield Project
2 17 (4.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 12 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (2.64%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.64%) Sports Betting
5 9 (2.16%) Hedge funds
6 8 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.44%) 3D Graphics
8 6 (1.44%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.20%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (0.96%) Social Network
11 3 (0.72%) Digital TV
11 3 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.72%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.48%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.13%) VMS
2 7 (1.68%) Windows
3 5 (1.20%) Linux
4 1 (0.24%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (32.93%) Full-Stack Development
2 129 (31.01%) Agile
3 111 (26.68%) CI/CD
4 107 (25.72%) Software Engineering
5 97 (23.32%) DevOps
6 71 (17.07%) Microservices
7 60 (14.42%) MVC
8 57 (13.70%) Containerisation
9 50 (12.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 46 (11.06%) SDLC
11 39 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
12 37 (8.89%) Collaborative Culture
12 37 (8.89%) User Experience
13 35 (8.41%) Clean Code
14 34 (8.17%) Mentoring
15 33 (7.93%) Machine Learning
15 33 (7.93%) OO
16 32 (7.69%) Analytics
16 32 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
17 31 (7.45%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 367 (88.22%) C#
2 180 (43.27%) SQL
3 123 (29.57%) JavaScript
4 68 (16.35%) TypeScript
5 39 (9.38%) PowerShell
6 17 (4.09%) Python
7 12 (2.88%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (2.64%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.44%) Bash
10 4 (0.96%) Bicep
10 4 (0.96%) Java
11 3 (0.72%) PHP
12 2 (0.48%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.24%) C++
13 1 (0.24%) F#
Qualifications
1 28 (6.73%) Degree
2 13 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (2.16%) AWS Certification
3 9 (2.16%) AWS Certified Developer
3 9 (2.16%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (0.96%) Azure Certification
5 4 (0.96%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.48%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.61%) QA
2 4 (0.96%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.48%) GDPR
3 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.48%) ITGC
3 2 (0.48%) SLA
4 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 78 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 64 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 29 (6.97%) Terraform
3 2 (0.48%) Ansible
Vendors
1 134 (32.21%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.57%) Adobe
3 6 (1.44%) Google
4 5 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (0.96%) Facebook
5 4 (0.96%) Workday
6 2 (0.48%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (0.48%) Foundry
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle
6 2 (0.48%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.24%) Apple
7 1 (0.24%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.24%) Databricks
7 1 (0.24%) IBM
7 1 (0.24%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.24%) Reuters
7 1 (0.24%) Sony
7 1 (0.24%) WooCommerce
7 1 (0.24%) Yahoo!
7 1 (0.24%) YouTube